Metal powders are key to metal additive manufacturing technologies such as powder bed
fusion. These powder feedstocks experience a range of forces and physical phenomena …

The particle size of the reinforcement affects the microstructure and mechanical properties of
the composites fabricated by selective laser melting. The powder bed characteristics were …

Improving the quality of the powder bed is of great interest in the powder bed fusion-based
additive manufacturing (PBF-AM) process to reduce micro-defects in the final product. We …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) has been adopted by various
industries as a novel manufacturing technology. Powder spreading is a crucial part of the …

In powder bed fusion (PBF), the global packing density is an important property used to
quantify the bulk behaviour of the powder. However, packing density can be highly non …

The present work systematically investigates the effects of BN nanopowder functionalization
on the processability, microstructure and tensile response of the custom Powder Bed Fusion …

Laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M) is the most used additive
manufacturing (AM) technology for metal parts. Nevertheless, challenges persist in …

Particle-size distribution (PSD) significantly influences the performance of powder coatings.
In this study, polyester-coating powders with similar median diameters (D 50) but varying …

This work examined the influence of powder properties on deoxidation and densification of
carbon steels during powder bed fusion-laser beam (PBF-LB) at compositions between 0.06 …

In this study, we proposed alternative spreading techniques aimed at enhancing the powder
bed properties in powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, utilizing discrete element …